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Bhopal:
The Popular Front
of India, (PFI), has demanded the Union government to take every
possible step to control price rise.
A
Press release issued by K. M. Shareef, General Secretary of PFI,
said that in its National Executive Council (NEC), meeting held at
Deccan House in Bangalore on Feb 28 and March 1 the demand was made.
The
Press release said :"Though the government has been reiterating its
commitment to curb price rise, we could not see any effective
measures taken by the government to fulfill it. The budget
presented by the Union Finance Minister disappointed the common
people. It will further escalate the price of essential commodities
The budget also reflected the government’s commitment towards
safeguarding the interests of neo-liberals and corporate."
Shareef said the National Executive Council has decided to organize
a "Parliament March" in New Delhi on March 18 as part of the two
months long “National Campaign for Muslim reservation”. The National
Campaign for Muslim reservation has received overwhelming support
from the masses and Popular Front has been able to mobilize people
for reservation to minorities.
"Popular Front NEC reiterates its demand to the UPA Government to
declare 10 per cent reservation to all Muslims all over India both
Central Government and Institutions in the light of Justice (Retd.)
Ranganath Mishra Commission report in the ongoing Parliament
session. Popular Front also condemned the BJP propaganda against
Muslim reservation. Reservation is a constitutional right and
various high level government committees have confirmed the
backwardness of Muslim community and proved that Muslim community
deserves reservation", the release stated.
The
NEC also decided to organize a “School Chalo” (Go To School)
national campaign to ensure that all students go to school up to
secondary level. Popular Front has been conducting "School Chalo"
Campaign prior to school admissions every year in various parts of
the country and it has received encouraging results. Various long
term programmes like developing selected villages as “Sarva Siksha
Gram” and “Adopt a student” will be initiated as part of the
campaign.
Popular Front NEC has asked the Government of India to withdraw the
recent notification issued by Ministry of Home Affairs whereby in
the name of a registration of citizen and issue of national identity
cards, the minorities in Assam are being denied citizenship and are
persecuted by concerned authorities, the release added.
The
meeting was presided over by Popular Front Chairman E.M. Abdul
Rahiman. General secretary K.M Shareef presented the reports. E
Abubaker, A Saeed, Maulana Usman Baig, Dr. Mahboob Shariff, Sheikh
Dahlan Baqavi, M A Jinnah and V.P Nasruddin attended the meeting.
(pervezbari@et.net)
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